Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger
Title:
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger
Number of Pages:
45
Description:
Boating with LBJ and the Secret Service; how LBJ was offered the job working for Congressman Richard Kleberg through James Cage; Winters' work for Lower Colorado River Authority Board to neutralize conflict between LCRA and the Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC); Lady Bird Johnson's interest in preserving trees along the highway between Johnson City and Stonewall; Winters' involvement with the Marshall Ford Dam; LBJ's lack of popularity in Gillespie County; the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor; LBJ joining the navy; construction contracts during World War II; construction work in Central America; the effect of World War II on Winters' business; LBJ's 1946 campaign against Hardy Hollers and 1948 campaign against Coke Stevenson; how A.W. Moursund and LBJ met; the relationship between Sam Ealy Johnson and Moursund; fights between boys from Johnson City and Fredericksburg in LBJ's youth; LBJ's concerns after his first heart attack in 1955; gifts given between the Winters and LBJ; LBJ's personality after becoming president; Winters' work on behalf of the Associated General Contractors; Winters selling wool and mohair after World War II; Winter's work with LBJ's blind trust as president of the Lyndon Johnson Foundation; J.C. Kellam; LBJ's involvement with money in the trust; Dale Malechek; the death of LBJ 's parents; African-American road gang workers in Johnson City; attending the 1965 presidential inauguration; Mexican men working for Winters; LBJ's ranch in Mexico; LBJ and Winters betting on domino games; Winters giving Sam Houston Johnson a bank job; the relationship between LBJ and Sam Houston and Josefa Johnson; Arthur Krim's domino skills; LBJ using the swimming pool at the Ranch; Ernest Stubbs; Wesley West remodeling Oreole Bailey's house.
